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>11.4. Removing a user</A
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> To remove a user, you first remove all
	his files, mailboxes, mail aliases, print jobs,
	<B
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>cron</B
> and <B
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>at</B
> jobs,
	and all other references to the user.  Then you remove the
	relevant lines from <TT
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>/etc/passwd</TT
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	<TT
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>/etc/group</TT
> (remember to remove the username
	from all groups it's been added to). It may be a good idea to
	first disable the account (see below), before you start removing
	stuff, to prevent the user from using the account while it is
	being removed.	</P
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>	Remember that users may have files outside their home
	directory. The <B
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>find</B
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	However, note that the above command will take a
	<EM
>long</EM
> time, if you have large disks. If you
	mount network disks, you need to be careful so that you won't
	trash the network or the server.  </P
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> Some Linux distributions come with special
	commands to do this; look for <B
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>deluser</B
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	<B
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>userdel</B
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	hand as well, and the commands might not do everything.  </P
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